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Monumento a Colombo in Piazza Acquaverde

Columbus Monument on Piazza Acquaverde

Description

Statue of Columbus with long, flowing hair, dressed in a short Spanish tabard, and a large open cloak; his left hand rests on an anchor while his right is on the shoulder of a figure of America typified by a kneeling Indian maiden holding a cross in the right hand.
At each of the four corners of the base, stands a smaller square pedestal, on each of which is a seated statue, representing Piety, Science, Constancy and Prudence. Between these are four bass-reliefs:

Columbus before the Council of Salamanca.

Columbus erecting a cross on the first land discovered.

Reception of Columbus at Barcelona, by the Kings of Spain on his return from the first voyage.

"Having divined a world, he found it for the perennial benefit of the old one;"

At the foot of the monument in 1892 to bronze laurel wreaths are placed, one with an anchor, the other with a palm leaf and a ribbon with the text: UNUS ERAT MUNDUS DUO SINT AIT STE: FUERE. On the left, this ribbon has also the text: AUSPICE LA SOCIETÀ GINNASTICA LIGURE C. COLOMBO 1892, to the right it is signed E. BURLANDO FECI.